Restriction of Human Rights-Ukrainian Experience or Long-Known World Practice?: Serhii Nadobko

February 24, 2022 was a turning point for the whole world, which was obviously not ready for such a daring act of aggression and full-scale war. The bombing of Ukrainian settlements, the temporary occupation of some of them, the temporary seizure of the Chernobyl and Zaporzzhia nuclear power plants, the destruction of both infrastructure and residential buildings put the very lives of millions of people at risk, and the behaviour of the Russian army in the temporarily occupied territories made it possible to speak about the genocide of the Ukrainian people. It is quite obvious that, under such circumstances, martial law was introduced in Ukraine, according to the Presidential decree of February 24, 2022.
The legislation of most countries of the world contains an indication of a special legal construction that would grant additional rights to the public administration in cases when the state is faced with unforeseen situations, overcoming which requires the mobilization of all available resources − the so-called emergency regimes or martial law regimes. It is in this context that it becomes clear that the expansion of the powers of state bodies entails a narrowing of the scope of human and citizen rights.
Serhii Nadobko is a citizen of Ukraine who has been displaced after February 24, 2022 following the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Before being displaced, he served as the Dean of the Faculty of Audiovisual arts and Distance Learning at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Art and holds a PhD of Law Science, Associate Professor. An expert in anti-discrimination policy under the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, and Honorary Speaker of the European Law Students' Association (ELSA). At the moment a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta.